Oona A. Hathaway

Forum Co-Director; Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law, Yale University

Oona A. Hathaway is also Professor of International Law and Area Studies at the Yale University MacMillan Center, Professor of the Yale University Department of Political Science, and Director of the Yale Law School Center for Global Legal Challenges. She is also Counselor to the Dean at Yale Law School. She has been a member of the Advisory Committee on International Law for the Legal Adviser at the United States Department of State since 2005. In 2014-15, she took leave to serve as Special Counsel to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Defense, where she was awarded the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Excellence. Her current research focuses on the foundations of modern international law, the intersection of U.S. constitutional law and international law, the enforcement of international law, and the law of armed conflict. She is a principal investigator on a grant awarded by Hewlett Foundation to study cyber conflict. She has published more than thirty law review articles, including The Law of Cyber-Attack, and she is the co-author of The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World (with Scott Shapiro).

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Edward Wittenstein

Forum Co-Director; Executive Director, International Security Studies, and Lecturer, Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University

Edward (“Ted”) Wittenstein is a Lecturer in Global Affairs and the Executive Director of International Security Studies, a research and teaching hub of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. In that capacity, he helps oversee a number of programs dedicated to international history and global security, including the Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technologies, and National Power; the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy; and the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy. A former diplomat and intelligence professional, Ted teaches undergraduate, graduate, and law courses on intelligence, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and national security decision-making. He also serves as Co-Director of the Yale Cyber Leadership Forum, a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, and a visiting faculty fellow at Yale Law School’s Center for Global Legal Challenges. Ted is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. Prior to returning to work for Yale, he held a variety of positions at the U.S. Department of Defense, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and the Department of State.

Caroline Agsten

Threat Context Lead, Digital Threat Analysis Center, Microsoft

Caroline Agsten is a threat context analyst at Microsoft’s Digital Threat Analysis Center focusing on Chinese state-backed disinformation efforts and global influence operations. She previously held positions at the U.S. Department of State after completing her Fulbright in Taiwan. She is a graduate of Middlebury College (B.A.) and Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs (M.A.).

SACHIN BANSAL

Chief Business Officer, SecurityScorecard

Sachin Bansal is the Chief Business Officer at SecurityScorecard who works closely with the CEO to run the company, and oversees multiple internal and external-facing teams, including legal, corporate operations, government, insurance, and professional services, all with P&L responsibility. He has been with SecurityScorecard since September 2019 and has built and scaled the company’s legal department and created a new government business line (including government relations). He has twice served as the interim head of HR and was the interim chief of staff for 2022. Sachin has played a key role in the company’s recent transactions including SecurityScorecard’s first M&A in 2022 of a Professional Services business, and its $180 million Series E round in 2021. He routinely briefs senior government leaders (including at the White House), is a frequent speaker (such as in Davos, as part of the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting), writer, and media commentator, having been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Arianna Huffington’s Thrive Global, and more. He has been named a “20 Under 40: Influential Leaders to Watch.” Sachin graduated magna cum laude from Duke University and magna cum laude from Duke University School of Law.

Richard Domingues Boscovich

Senior Attorney on Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit

Richard Boscovich leads a team that focuses on malicious code and spyware enforcement cases. His work in the field includes legal strategies used in the take downs of the Waledac, Rustock and Kelihos botnets. Boscovich began his career as a corporate tax attorney in New York, NY, and then served for 17 years at the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Florida’s Southern District. He directed the District’s Computer Hacking & Intellectual Property unit, where he prosecuted high-profile computer intrusion cases, including the first federal juvenile prosecution of a 17- year-old hacker. With Microsoft since 2008, he holds both a B.A. degree in Political Science/History and a law degree from the University of Miami.

GEOFF BROWN

Vice President, Recorded Future

Geoff Brown joined Recorded Future in January 2022 to accelerate the company’s impact for the missions of global governments. Geoff built the centralized cybersecurity program for the City of New York as NYC’s CISO and the founding Head of NYC Cyber Command (between 2016 and December 2021), and has prior experience in financial services and the U.S. Federal Government, including with the 9/11 Commission. Geoff is a member of Aspen Institute’s Cybersecurity Group, a graduate of Middlebury College, and teaches intelligence and cybersecurity at the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies Department at the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey, CA.

Gary Corn

Director, Technology, Law and Security Program, Washington College of Law, American University; former Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel), U.S. Cyber Command

Professor Gary Corn is the director of the Technology, Law & Security Program and an adjunct professor of cyber and national security law and the law of armed conflict.  A recognized expert on the intersection of cyber and national security law and policy, Professor Corn joined TLS after serving twenty-six years on active duty in the U.S. Army as a military attorney practicing national security law at the highest levels within the Department of Defense. His final five years he served as the Staff Judge Advocate (General Counsel) to U.S. Cyber Command. Professor Corn is a frequent, and highly-sought out speaker at international and national conferences and has published numerous articles, book chapters, and blog posts, including in the American Journal of International Law, The Temple International and Comparative Law Journal, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, on Lawfare, Just Security, the and the Lieber Institute’s Articles of War.  He is a co-author of National Security Law and the Constitution (Wolters Kluwer)(2020).

Michael C. Hochman

Chief of Staff, Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House

Michael C. Hochman has joined the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) as deputy general counsel and deputy chief of staff. In those positions, Hochman will oversee executing directives from the executive branch at the (ONCD) office. Prior to taking on the new positions earlier this month, Hochman had been working as deputy staff secretary at the White House where he was responsible for preparing daily briefing books, and vetting speeches and events. Before this White House service, Hochman was a member of the law firm Monzack Mersky Browder and Hochman, P.A. for over 17 years. The firm focuses on business law, litigation, bankruptcy, and taxation issues. Hochman holds a bachelor’s in communications from the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from Boston College Law School.

Jason Hsu

Former Legislator-at-Large, Taiwan; Visiting Scholar, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

Yu Jen (Jason) Hsu is a visiting fellow at Paul Tsai China Center Yale Law School. From 2016 to 2020 Hsu served as Legislator At-Large in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan (national parliament) where he focused on defense, technology and foreign affairs. Among the crucial legislative bills that he initiated and sponsored include FinTech Regulatory Sandbox Act, Autonomous Vehicles Management Act, Amendment on Anti-Money Laundering Law, Cybersecurity Management Act and Virtual Currency Guidelines (Security Token Offerings), Artificial Intelligence Development Act, Digital Economy Principle Act. Hsu is also prominent advocator for socially progressive legislation. He co-led the effort to pass Same Sex Marriage Act and championed for End of Life Dignity Act (Voluntary Euthanasia).

JORDAN RAE KELLY

Senior Managing Director, Head of Americas Cybersecurity, FTI Consulting

Jordan Rae Kelly is a Senior Managing Director and the Head of Cybersecurity for the Americas at FTI Consulting, with over 15 years of experience managing cyber policy planning and incident response. At FTI, she advises clients on cybersecurity and data privacy matters, and has previously served in senior roles at the White House's National Security Council and the FBI's Cyber Division. Ms. Kelly has received recognition for her work in technology and investigations and is a member of Women in Cybersecurity and Girls Who Code. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Tennessee College of Law.

Anat Lior

Schmidt Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Global Affairs, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

Dr. Anat Lior is an AI Schmidt Visiting Scholar and Lecturer in Global Affairs with the Jackson School at Yale, and a Yale Affliated fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Her research interests include AI governance and liability, the intersection of insurance and emerging technologies and intellectual property law. Anat obtained her Doctorate degree from Yale Law School, under the supervision of Professor Jack Balkin, researching the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, tort law, insurance law and antitrust law. She also works closely with Professor Lior Zemer, focusing on the field of intellectual property.

Matt Olsen

Assistant Attorney General for National Security

Matt Olsen is the Assistant Attorney General for National Security.  In that capacity, he leads the Department of Justice’s mission to combat terrorism, espionage, cyber crime, and other threats to the national security. From 2011 to 2014, Olsen served as the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center. Prior to leading NCTC, Olsen was the General Counsel for the National Security Agency. For 18 years, Olsen worked at the Department of Justice as a career attorney and in a number of leadership positions. He served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General for national security and was Special Counselor to the Attorney General. In 2006, Olsen helped establish the National Security Division and served as the first career Deputy Assistant Attorney General for National Security.

Asha Rangappa

Assistant Dean of Admissions and Senior Lecturer, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs

Asha Rangappa is assistant dean and a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson School of Global Affairs and a former Associate Dean at Yale Law School. Prior to her current position, Asha served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. Her work involved assessing threats to national security, conducting classified investigations on suspected foreign agents and performing undercover work. While in the FBI, Asha gained experience in electronic surveillance, interview and interrogation techniques, firearms and the use of deadly force. 

Stephen Roach

Former Chairman, Morgan Stanley Asia; Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

Stephen Roach is a Senior Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School.  He joined the Yale faculty in 2010 after 30 years at Morgan Stanley, mainly as the firm’s chief economist heading up a highly regarded global team followed by several years as the Hong Kong-based Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. He was the first senior fellow to join the faculty of Yale University’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs at its inception in 2010 and remained in that capacity until 2022; over that period, he was also a Senior Lecturer at Yale’s School of Management.  A passionate teacher, he has drawn on his rich experience and developed popular new courses on Asia — notably "The Next China" and "The Lessons of Japan."  His prolific writings include the book Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China (2014) and the forthcoming book Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives (publication date November 29, 2022).  His work has also appeared in academic journals, congressional testimony and has been disseminated widely in the domestic and international media. His commentary is published regularly on Project Syndicate’s global, multi-lingual platform.  He joined Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center in 2022.

Samm Sacks

Cyber Policy Fellow, New America Foundation; Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

 Samm Sacks is a Senior Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Her research examines China’s information and communications technology (ICT) policies, with a focus on China’s cybersecurity legal system, the U.S.-China technology relationship, and the geopolitics of data privacy and cross-border data flows.

Adam Segal

Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security; Director, Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program, Council on Foreign Relations

Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security and director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). An expert on security issues, technology development, and Chinese domestic and foreign policy, Segal was the project director for the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force reports Confronting Reality in Cyberspace, Innovation and National Security, Defending an Open, Global, Secure, and Resilient Internet, and Chinese Military Power. His book The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age (PublicAffairs, 2016) describes the increasingly contentious geopolitics of cyberspace. His work has appeared in the Financial Times, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, the Wall Street Journal, and Foreign Affairs, among others. He currently writes for the blog, “Net Politics.”

Scott Shapiro

Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale University

Scott Shapiro is the Charles F. Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at Yale Law School. His areas of interest include jurisprudence, international law, constitutional law, criminal law and cybersecurity. He is the author of Legality (2011), The Internationalists (2017) (with Oona Hathaway), and editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law (2002) (with Jules Coleman). He earned B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from Columbia University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Shapiro is an editor of Legal Theory and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is also the founding director of the Yale CyberSecurity Lab, which provides cutting-edge cybersecurity and information technology teaching facilities. His next book, entitled Insecurity, details the history and technology of internet hacking.

Jack Stubbs

Vice President for Intelligence, Graphika

Jack Stubbs is Vice President of Intelligence at Graphika, where he leads a team that specializes in mapping and understanding online communities. Previously he worked at Reuters news agency, reporting from more than 10 countries including Russia and Ukraine before moving to cover cybersecurity with a focus on disinformation and influence operations. Jack’s work has helped expose a wide range of harmful online activities, from violent conspiracy movements, to coordinated harassment campaigns and state-backed information operations.

Michael Sulmeyer

Principal Cyber Adviser to the Secretary of the Army and Army Chief of Staff

Dr. Michael Sulmeyer assumed the position as the Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of the Army and the Army Chief of Staff on March 14, 2022. He is responsible for advising both the SA and CSA on all cyber matters, including issues of readiness, capabilities, and strategy. Prior to his appointment as the Principal Cyber Advisor, Dr. Sulmeyer was the Director of the Rapid Vulnerability Review in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense. Previously, he served as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Cyber Policy at the National Security Council. Prior to that, he was Senior Advisor to the Commander, U.S. Cyber Command.

Jing Tsu

John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures; Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University

Jing Tsu specializes in modern Chinese literature & culture and Sinophone studies, from the 19th century to the present. At Yale she offers graduate seminars on sympathy, world Sinophone literature, and approaches to East Asian intellectual and literary history. She offers a regular interdisciplinary course, “China in the World,” which features six contemporary topics in historical time. Tsu has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard), the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), and the Institute for Advanced Studies (Princeton).  She is currently writing a new book on what happened to the Chinese script in the age of the western alphabet, to appear with Riverhead at Penguin Random House. 

Jamie Horsley

Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

Jamie Horsley is a Senior Fellow of the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Her project work and research revolve primarily around issues of administrative law, governance and regulatory reform, including promoting government transparency, public participation and government accountability.  

Joan Feigenbaum

Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science, Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science

Joan Feigenbaum is the Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science at Yale University, where she also holds a courtesy appointment as Professor of Economics. She received a BA in Mathematics from Harvard and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford. Between finishing her Ph.D. in 1986 and starting at Yale in 2000, she was with AT&T, where she participated broadly in the company's Information-Sciences research agenda, e.g., by creating a research group in Algorithms and Distributed Data, of which she was the manager in 1998-99. Professor Feigenbaum's research interests include security, privacy, anonymity, and accountability; Internet algorithmics; and computational complexity. While at Yale, she has been a principal in several high-profile activities, including the DHS-funded Pri-Fi Project, the DARPA-funded DISSENT project, and the NSF-funded PORTIA project.

Heajune (June) Lee

Cyber Policy Analyst, United States Department of Defense

June Lee was previously a program coordinator and research assistant for the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where her research focused on cyber norms and financial sector cybersecurity. She co-led the Korea Project’s North Korea Cyber Working Group and previously conducted research on cybersecurity and conflict resolution at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative and the State Department. June graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University, studying international relations and computer science.

Karman Lucero

Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center

Karman Lucero joined the Center in July 2018, after working for the Data & Society Research Institute and Microsoft’s US Government Affairs Office, where he focused on issues related to artificial intelligence law and policy, telecom law and policy, and criminal justice reform. He received a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and Editor-In-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Asian Law. As a law student, he studied Chinese administrative and judicial reform at Peking University, interned with the US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control and the Defense Team of Nuon Chea at the United Nations Assistance to the Khmer Rouge Trials, and also worked for a group of human rights lawyers in Nepal during the drafting of Nepal’s new Constitution. Prior to law school, he was a Teaching Fellow in Manghuai Township in Yunnan with Teach for China. Karman speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese.

Susan Thornton

Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs; Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School

Susan A. Thornton is a retired senior U.S. diplomat with almost three decades of experience with the U.S. State Department in Eurasia and East Asia. She is currently a Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School Paul Tsai China Center. She is also the director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Until July 2018, Thornton was Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs at the Department of State and led East Asia policymaking amid crises with North Korea, escalating trade tensions with China, and a fast-changing international environment. In previous State Department roles, she worked on U.S. policy toward China, Korea and the former Soviet Union and served in leadership positions at U.S. embassies in Central Asia, Russia, the Caucasus and China.